Vivekachudamani
by Shankara | 1921 | 49,785 words | ISBN-13: 9788175051065
The Vivekachudamani is a collection of poetical couplets authored by Shankara around the eighth century. The philosophical school this compilation attempts to expose is called ‘Advaita Vedanta’, or non-dualism, one of the classical orthodox philosophies of Hinduism. The book teaches Viveka: discrimination between the real and the unreal. Shankara d...
Verse 237-238
अतः परं ब्रह्म सदद्वितीयं
विशुद्धविज्ञानघनं निरञ्जनम् ।
प्राशान्तमाद्यन्तविहीनमक्रियं
निरन्तरानन्दरसस्वरूपम् ॥ २३७ ॥निरस्तमायाकृतसर्वभेदं
नित्यं सुखं निष्कलमप्रमेयम् ।
अरूपमव्यक्तमनाख्यमव्ययं
ज्योतिः स्वयं किंचिदिदं चकास्ति ॥ २३८ ॥ataḥ paraṃ brahma sadadvitīyaṃ
viśuddhavijñānaghanaṃ nirañjanam |
prāśāntamādyantavihīnamakriyaṃ
nirantarānandarasasvarūpam || 237 ||nirastamāyākṛtasarvabhedaṃ
nityaṃ sukhaṃ niṣkalamaprameyam |
arūpamavyaktamanākhyamavyayaṃ
jyotiḥ svayaṃ kiṃcididaṃ cakāsti || 238 ||237-238. Hence whatever is manifested, viz. this universe, is the Supreme Brahman Itself, the Real, the One without a second, pure, the Essence of Knowledge, taintless, serene, devoid of beginning and end, beyond activity, the Essence of Bliss Absolute – transcending all the diversities created by Māyā or Nescience, eternal, ever beyond the reach of pain, indivisible, immeasurable, formless, undifferentiated, nameless, immutable, self-luminous.